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The regiment's nickname, the "Cherry Pickers", came from an incident during the Peninsular War, in which the 11th Light Dragoons (as the regiment was then named) were attacked while raiding an orchard at San Martin de Trebejo in Spain. When the regiment became the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars in 1840, their new uniform by coincidence included "cherry" (i.e. crimson) coloured trousers, unique among British regiments and worn since in all orders of uniform except battledress. This was not in memory of the orchard incident but reflected the crimson livery of Prince Albert's House: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

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Hi Lachlan. Yes the biscuit factory in Peffermill Road was Mitchelhill's Healthy Life Biscuit Factory. It was built in 1937 and sold to House of Fraser in 1964 after the bread and cake making side of the business was moved into the extended premises in about 1959. I think (not certain) Frasers sold the premises to United Biscuits, operating as Simmers. I believe the premises now produce oatcakes which have been manufactured there since 1966 approx after another business, Capital Oatcakes, was closed and the production moved to Aberdeenshire.